Warwick Community Days

 One of the benefits of having G'ma moved to Warwick in June (other than it gave me the opportunity to see her 6 times before she passed away) was that we found out about Warwick Community Day at the end of June.  They have the largest mobile petting zoo in Michigan on premises, two inflatables and lunch all free of charge.  Plus, there is some other things that cost extra, but the kids spent several hours just enjoying the free activities.

 I didn't take many pictures of the animals, as I was busy keeping my eyes on X.  But, they had  two huge tortoises, slues of goats and sheep, a kangaroo, a couple camels, some little monkey species, an armadillo, a couple parrots, some little pacing cat animal and a bunch more that I don't remember.  E was excited to touch an albino Burmese python because we had been reading about how they are invading the Everglades from our library book Eco Dogs that week.  They had an entire reptile trailer but we didn't go in there.  We just got to see the Burmese python as one of the workers was holding it outside of the trailer.  X, however, didn't want anything to do with the big snake...and that was okay with me because I didn't really want to get too close to it either.

 The kids loved looking at the goats.  Numerous people thought that they needed to share their goat treats with the kids and so they got to feed them too.  X mainly threw the feed at the goats because he didn't really want them touching him.  E enjoyed having them munch out of her hand and chatting with the goats as they did it.  She was much more adventurous here than she has been at other zoos.

The next stop were the inflatables.  Both the kids loved them.  They had an obstacle course and a bounce house with a slide.  E loved them both.  X loved the bounce house.  He laughed and laughed and laughed as the bigger kids jumped and he'd get knocked down.  He hadn't figured out how to jump yet and he loved the feeling of jumping as the bigger kids jumped and he'd go airborne.  It made me nervous but he loved it.

E ran up and down the obstacle course again and again and again.  She loved chasing the other kids through it and coming down the slide at the end. 

The slide on the other side of the bounce house was fun too.  Although, I didn't particularly appreciate the fact that X thought that he needed to climb up to the top.  He came down the slide once and the other times that he climbed up to the top, he came back down the ladder.  He thought it was cool to be up there with the bigger kids but didn't always enjoy all the 'help' that the bigger kids tried to offer him.

It was a very fun day.  The kids had a blast.  There were many tears when it was time to leave the inflatables but they had a good time.  Then, it started to sprinkle and it didn't seem so bad to be leaving.